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    ECOLOGICAL

    LITERACY
    The great challenge of our time is to build and nurture
    sustainable communities- communities that are
    designed in such a way that their ways of life, business,
    economies, physical structures, and technologies do not
    interfere with nature’s ability to sustain life. the first
    step in this endeavour is to understand the principles of
    organization that ecosystems have developed to sustain
    the web of life. This understanding is what we call
    ECOLOGICAL LITERACY.
    What is Ecological Literacy?
    Ecological Literacy or eco-literacy, is a
    term first used by American educator
    David W. Orr and physicist Fritjof
    Capra in the 1990s, in order to
    introduce into educational practice
    the value and well-being of the Earth
    and its ecosystems.
    What is Ecological Literacy?
    Ecoliteracy considers ecological
    systems and awareness of how
    society operates within natural
    aspects as an educational
    imperative.
    - WAHL, 2017
    What is Ecological Literacy?
    Understanding of principles of organization
    that ecosystems have evolved to sustain the
    web of life that leads to sustainability. Apply
    the ecological knowledge to the fundamental
    redesign of technologies and social
    instructions to connect the gap human design
    and ecological sustainable systems of nature.
    - CAPRA, 2003
    What is Ecological Literacy?
    It is a way of thinking about the world in
    terms of its interdependent natural and
    human systems, including a consideration of
    the consequences of human actions and
    interactions within the natural context.
    Students understand the natural systems that sustain life
    on earth and apply the principles guiding ecosystems to
    help create sustainable human communities.
    SUSTAINABILITY
    Sustainability is a quantitative and
    qualitative condition that demonstrates
    the human capacity to survive. It’s the
    responsibility to conserve natural
    resources and protect global
    ecosystems to support health and
    wellbeing, now, and in the future.
    SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
    Sustainable development can be defined
    as development that meets the needs of
    the present without compromising the
    ability of future generations to meet their
    own needs.
    (World Commission of Environment and
    Development, 1987).
    HOW CAN SUSTAINABILITY BE
    ACHIEVED?
    ▪ Reducing consumption of resources- such as
    water energy
    ▪ Better building practices to reduce energy and
    waste
    ▪ More fuel efficient engines in cars and trucks
    ▪ Increasing recycling- using recycled materials
    ▪ Protection of forest all over the earth
    ECOLOGICALLY
    LITERATE
    PERSON AND
    SOCIETY
    ECOLOGICALLY LITERATE PERSON
    Is a person that can apply such understanding
    to the design and organization of communities
    and the creation of a regenerative culture. To
    be ecoliterate means to understand the
    principles of ecological communities and use
    those principles for creating sustainable
    human communities.
    BECOMING AN ECOLITERATE
    ▪ Developing empathy for all forms of life
    ▪ Embracing sustainability as a community
    practice
    ▪ Making the invisible visible
    ▪ Anticipating unintended consequences
    ▪ Understanding how nature sustains life
    ECOLITERATE SOCIETY
    This refers to a society in which
    they protect and nurture the
    environment and its natural
    resources, the society applies
    their environmental knowledge to
    achieve healthy and sustainable
    society.
    Core 1. Principles of Living Systems
    2. Design Inspired by Nature
    Aspects of 3. Systems Thinking
    Ecological 4. Ecological Paradigm and the
    Transition to Sustainability
    Literacy 5. Collaboration, Community
    Building and Citizenship
    WHY DO WE NEED TO THINK GREEN?
    - Green Thinking means following practices that can
    lead to actions and lifestyles to be more
    environmentally friendly, which in turn helps to
    preserve the environment surrounding its natural
    resources for future and current generations.
    - Do not think there is nothing you cannot do to
    keep the planet. Human can play an important
    role in celebrating a clean and safe environment,
    which means that we can do a lot

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